That is all we know at this point about Verizon's plans for the phone. It has not yet announced a release date nor a price for the BlackBerry Priv, although you can sign up on the carrier's website to receive any further updates via email.

This is great news! Verizon announcing this so soon after AT&T released the Priv must mean that Verizon is seeing quite a demand for the Priv. Verizon was sounding pretty agnostic about BlackBerry after failing to release the Passport on Verizon.

Great news for BlackBerry and great news for all of us Verizon customers who want the Priv! Can't wait to get my Priv!

Definitely. BB10 is definitely a fantastic mobile operating system but extremely hampered by its lacklustre ecosystem. Unfortunately people don't really care about how powerful/advanced the mobile OS is even if it has a strong mobile ecosystem which includes lots of native mobile applications and integrated cloud services. But that's reality these days.

It's not about how powerful it is. I bought a Palm Pre Plus because it was super powerful then Palm died and I realized it's all about whether or not the company that makes the OS or the OS itself will exist in the next few years. Apps are vital to support a phone, if the company stops making the OS in the future, new apps and app updates will stop coming and the phone will be left behind.

He's not comparing the two phones. More that he's exercising caution after getting burned by a device with a lot of hype behind it, which resulted in a miserable experience. Not that I think he'd experience the same in this situation (BBRY is an entirely new company compared to the BB Storm days), but sometimes it's hard to bite into a piece of fruit after the first bite was quite sour.